please follow the request and write 1-3pages paper, and fill out questions.
you are to put together your Final Exam Portfolio. In this, you should have your Diagnostic Essay, drafts and revisions of your Literacy Narrative/Metawriting Assignment, Catholic Intellectual Tradition Response, Discourse Community Ethnography, and Argumentative Proposal Synthesis. You also need a final reflective essay discussing how you have grown as a writer over the term. This should be around one to three pages, but may go longer.
As a review, here is an overview of the material we covered:
Humanities Commons Learning Goals
Write about primary and secondary texts on the topic of literacy from the perspective of English Studies and at least one additional discipline in the Humanities Commons in a manner that reflects their ability to read critically;
Engage in a process approach to writing college-level prose;
Produce rhetorically effective college-level expository prose;
Demonstrate effective use of scholarly sources in their writing;
Recount in college-level prose their personal literacy histories and current literacy practices;
Examine in writing the discourse of a community different from themselves with respect to factors such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and so forth.
Explore the relevance of Catholic intellectual tradition for the study of reading, writing, and/or rhetoric as human endeavors.
Metawriting
“Sponsors of Literacy” - Brandt
Portrait of the Artists as
A Young Person – Literacy Narrative
A Young Adult – Autoethnography
MLA Conventions
Library Research
Grammar
Write in Active Voice
Seven Comma Rules
Affect/Effect; it’s its; etc.
Introduce Quotations
Quote, Summary, Paraphrase
Hamburger Metaphor for integrating quotes
Classical Aristotelian Essay Form
Rebuttal
Compare Contrast Essay: Block vs. Alternating
Works Cited List
Top Twenty Errors
Discourse Community Ethnography
“The Concept of a Discourse Community” – Swales
C.A.R.S. – Creating a Research Space – Swales
“Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers” – Mirabelli
“Rethinking Subcultural Resistance: Core Values of the Straight Edge Movement” –
Haenfler
Coaching article - Branick
Writing is a Recursive Process
Research Synthesis/Argument
Qualitative Research
Field Notes
Observations
Reflections
Ethnography
Interviews
Readings:
English 100 Reader
Brandt
Brown, Hawisher, and Selfe
Douglass
Kingsolver
Liu
X
Ortiz
Rose
Freire and Macedo
Freire
Norris
JPII
Branick
Gee
Haenfler
McCarty & Watahomigie
Mirabelli
Silko
Swales
KEEN
Curiosity
Connections
Creating Value
Goshgarian
Rhetoric and Reader – Writing and Research
Logical Fallacies
Rhetorical Triangle
Toulmin
“Advertising”